Leandro Rodriguez Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 351956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leandro Rodriguez Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leandro Rodriguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Medina |
| SIGNATURE | MEDINA L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de las Américas Puebla |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2303-9835 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The (failed) construction of a far-right actor: Mexico's FRENAA and its media representations
The decisive electoral victory of Claudia Sheinbaum in 2024 allowed her to assume the presidency of the country. With her, the Fourth Transformation— the period inaugurated by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that aligns with the independence, reform, and revolution movements of the 19th and 20th centuries—continues. Thus, the right-wing discourses that have emerged in countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile do not seem to affect Mexico’s p…
In no small words: Sandra Harding (1935-2025)
Well-being and the internationalisation of academic life: An exploration from the periphery
On epistemic decentralising: Infrastructuring knowledge beyond global North
The history of science has shown that knowledge has tended to be concentrated in a few places. This required a set of institutions, practices and infrastructures that operated globally. These were articulated with broader trends, such as capitalist and colonial expansion. Subsequently, this concentration allowed these places to become centres of knowledge production, from which theories and conceptual frameworks often spread to all corners of the…
Explorer les politiques de la langue et de l'infrastructure: Tapuya, une revue latino-américaine en anglais
L'analyse des pratiques de travail des revues est fondamentale pour comprendre comment fonctionne le monde académique, à l'heure où l'impact facteur est devenu un signe majeur de qualité de la recherche. La revue d'études des sciences Tapuya est née en 2016 en Amérique latine, avec la particularité de publier des articles en anglais afin de mieux faire connaitre les recherches de ce continent. Cet entretien avec le fondateur et ancien rédacteur e…
Disruptive culture: Violence and cultural self-management in Tijuana, 2001–2017
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders
With strong pressure to make academic research socially and economically relevant, academics face the problem of reconciling inherently academic products through which they are assessed (e.g. scientific articles) with other products that are often demanded by non‐academic social actors. These products, which we call scholarly couplers, make up an important part of academic work, often ignored or underestimated in evaluation instances. In this art…
STS Between Centers and Peripheries: How Transnational are Leading STS Journals
In the context of increasing internationalization of the science and technology studies (STS) field, and reflections on post-coloniality and provincialization of STS, we examine to what extent a set of twelve leading journals of the field have published papers from different regions worldwide. In this exploratory work, based on information retrieved from the Web of Science for the period 2010–2019, we often use Latin America as an example, but re…
The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers
Going virtual: Academic conferences in the age of Covid-19
In the context of the 2020 world pandemic of COVID-19, many professional and scientific associations have had to change the way that they gather and reorganize their scholarly conferences. For many of them, conferences are a main source of income and important occasions for business meetings and managerial decisions. Yet, with trips and face-to-face encounters banned, the opportunity arrived for going virtual and developing human and technical ca…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
A transitional editorial about editorial transition
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Prácticas culturales colaborativas y sociabilidad débil. Una caracterización a partir de experiencias autogestivas en Tijuana y Monterrey, México
Although research on collaborative artistic projects and practices tend to emphasize the social ties and even the production of communities that they enact, normally, this very research does not pay attention to the singularity of the forms of sociality produced. This article engages in a double task –namely, a theoretical definition and an analytical application– derived from the fieldwork undertaken in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Monterre…
Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: A view from the periphery
Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an understudied topic. Even less has been the interest in connecting such bonds with the internationalization of careers and knowledge. In this article, the authors aim at filling this gap by studying what role personal bonds have played in the internationalization of the social sciences in Latin …
De la posverdad al populismo epistémico: Una visión desde los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS)
El concepto de posverdad se ha ido imponiendo desde el periodismo y la política, hacia otras áreas del conocimiento, sin embargo su vaguedad ha planteado numerosos problemas. Particularmente, lo que la posverdad parece señalar en la política actual se corresponde con realidades ya conocidas y antiguas de América Latina, como es el caso de los populismos. Lo que le ha aportado el actual debate, y se observa en el tratamiento en los estudios de cie…
Hebe Vessuri endowed Chair in Latin American Science, Technology and Society: A Tapuya initiative
Tapuya is a highly innovative yet editorially challenging journal because of its multiple connections with institutions and academics throughout South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, a
The paths towards institutionalization
In 2021, Tapuya publishes its fourth volume. Perhaps because of the pandemic and the changes that have taken place since the beginning of 2020, the day when we launched the journal, at the annual m
Migrants, parasites et exploitation minière: Coproduction de problèmes publics et de connaissances scientifiques dans la périphérie
Les régions périphériques de la science, telles que les pays d'Amérique latine, ont souvent entretenu des relations complexes avec les centres d'expertise scientifique et technique. Dans ces régions, on espère que les connaissances scientifiques contribuent à la résolution de problèmes publics, alors que, dans le même temps, elles doivent satisfaire aux exigences des domaines et institutions de recherche dominants situés dans les centres hégémoni…
Putting (social) science in its place(s)
Book review ofHeilbron, Johan, Sorá, Gustavo, and Boncourt, Thibaud (eds). 2018. The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. London: Palgrave. 371 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73298-5Price: €128,39
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transf…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
On urgency and importance
Mafalda is an Argentine comic strip written and drawn by artist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon (Quino) which ran from 1963 to 1974.1 Among her many insightful comments to her parents and friends, on
Thinking about Covid-19
2020 will be remembered as the year that we were sent to our homes, were told to keep social distance, were forced to remote working (if we were lucky to keep our jobs), and were required to re-arr
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
International Ties at Peripheral Sites: Co-producing Social Processes and Scientific Knowledge in Latin America
In recent decades, scientific knowledge has been increasingly expected to contribute to the resolution of public and controversial issues in Latin America. However, in peripheral sites of knowledge and economic production, the dynamics of both science and society have been complicated by tensions between the demands of local stakeholders and the ties with the global centers of technical and scientific expertise. First, local public issues are oft…
Enacting networks, crossing borders: On the internationalization of the social sciences in Mexico
The study of the internationalization of science seems to be focused on the natural and formal sciences and on networks of the Global North. A shift towards the social sciences and a peripheral region (Mexico) is proposed here and shows that two different types of networks are enacted to face the challenges of internationalized research. On the one hand, there are strategic networks which internalize the pressure of incentives brought to bear on …
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transf…
A geopolitics of bad English
Local Chairs vs International Networks: The Beginning of the Scholarly Career in a Peripheral Academic Field
Objetos subordinantes: La Tecnología Epistémica Para Producir Centros Y Periferias
En los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología ha aparecido abundante lite-ratura acerca de la importancia del espacio en la producción y la circulación de conocimiento. La propia idea de circulación de conocimiento ha recibido mayor atención, especialmente por la necesidad de analizar las transformaciones que éste recibe a medida que viaja de su lugar de origen a sus múltiples destinos. El presente artículo, derivado de investigaciones c…
On epistemic decentralising: Infrastructuring knowledge beyond global North
The history of science has shown that knowledge has tended to be concentrated in a few places. This required a set of institutions, practices and infrastructures that operated globally. These were articulated with broader trends, such as capitalist and colonial expansion. Subsequently, this concentration allowed these places to become centres of knowledge production, from which theories and conceptual frameworks often spread to all corners of the…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Welcome to South-South dialogues: An introduction to a collaborative project between East Asian Science, Technology and Society, and Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Where Is East Asia in STS?Wen-yuan Lin; John LawABSTRACTThe international spread of STS has reshaped the discipline in many ways, pushing it from its original core focus on technoscience in Euro-America to embrace new and wider agendas in other locations. For the practitioners of STS in East Asia, the complex relations between geographical region and forms of knowledge in technoscience are firmly on the agenda, and they have conceptualized these …
Local Chairs vs International Networks: The Beginning of the Scholarly Career in a Peripheral Academic Field
Objetos subordinantes: La Tecnología Epistémica Para Producir Centros Y Periferias
En los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología ha aparecido abundante lite-ratura acerca de la importancia del espacio en la producción y la circulación de conocimiento. La propia idea de circulación de conocimiento ha recibido mayor atención, especialmente por la necesidad de analizar las transformaciones que éste recibe a medida que viaja de su lugar de origen a sus múltiples destinos. El presente artículo, derivado de investigaciones c…
The Periphery Strikes Back? The Subtlety of L atin A merican Power in the U nited S tates
In this article, we propose the concepts of “generalized” and “specialized” soft power through an analysis of the effects of L atino power in the U nited S tates. By focusing on demographic features, mass media, education, science and technology, and business, we attempt to provide a snapshot of the subtlety of L atino power in terms of flows and degrees of penetration within the U . S . landscape. We conclude by pointing out the main differences…
Internationalizing science and technology: Some Introductory Remarks
In the last decades, the interest in the internationalization of science and technology has increased. Scholars who have devoted analyses to this phenomenon have focused on different dimensions of
International Ties at Peripheral Sites: Co-producing Social Processes and Scientific Knowledge in Latin America
In recent decades, scientific knowledge has been increasingly expected to contribute to the resolution of public and controversial issues in Latin America. However, in peripheral sites of knowledge and economic production, the dynamics of both science and society have been complicated by tensions between the demands of local stakeholders and the ties with the global centers of technical and scientific expertise. First, local public issues are oft…
Una geopolítica del acceso abierto: Información, software y lectura
El llamado a una apertura en relación con el acceso a la literatura científica en la actualidad se ha generalizado. Desde consejos de ciencia y tecnología hasta instituciones universitarias, pasando por las recomendaciones de organizaciones intergubernamentales, los principales actores en la producción de conocimiento parecen convencidos de que el futuro de la circulación y el uso de conocimiento depende del acceso abierto. En este artículo se ex…
A geopolitics of bad English
Welcome to South-South dialogues: An introduction to a collaborative project between East Asian Science, Technology and Society, and Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Where Is East Asia in STS?Wen-yuan Lin; John LawABSTRACTThe international spread of STS has reshaped the discipline in many ways, pushing it from its original core focus on technoscience in Euro-America to embrace new and wider agendas in other locations. For the practitioners of STS in East Asia, the complex relations between geographical region and forms of knowledge in technoscience are firmly on the agenda, and they have conceptualized these …
Enacting networks, crossing borders: On the internationalization of the social sciences in Mexico
The study of the internationalization of science seems to be focused on the natural and formal sciences and on networks of the Global North. A shift towards the social sciences and a peripheral region (Mexico) is proposed here and shows that two different types of networks are enacted to face the challenges of internationalized research. On the one hand, there are strategic networks which internalize the pressure of incentives brought to bear on …
Putting (social) science in its place(s)
Book review ofHeilbron, Johan, Sorá, Gustavo, and Boncourt, Thibaud (eds). 2018. The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. London: Palgrave. 371 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73298-5Price: €128,39
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transf…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
On urgency and importance
Mafalda is an Argentine comic strip written and drawn by artist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon (Quino) which ran from 1963 to 1974.1 Among her many insightful comments to her parents and friends, on
Thinking about Covid-19
2020 will be remembered as the year that we were sent to our homes, were told to keep social distance, were forced to remote working (if we were lucky to keep our jobs), and were required to re-arr
Prácticas culturales colaborativas y sociabilidad débil. Una caracterización a partir de experiencias autogestivas en Tijuana y Monterrey, México
Although research on collaborative artistic projects and practices tend to emphasize the social ties and even the production of communities that they enact, normally, this very research does not pay attention to the singularity of the forms of sociality produced. This article engages in a double task –namely, a theoretical definition and an analytical application– derived from the fieldwork undertaken in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Monterre…
Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: A view from the periphery
Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an understudied topic. Even less has been the interest in connecting such bonds with the internationalization of careers and knowledge. In this article, the authors aim at filling this gap by studying what role personal bonds have played in the internationalization of the social sciences in Latin …
De la posverdad al populismo epistémico: Una visión desde los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS)
El concepto de posverdad se ha ido imponiendo desde el periodismo y la política, hacia otras áreas del conocimiento, sin embargo su vaguedad ha planteado numerosos problemas. Particularmente, lo que la posverdad parece señalar en la política actual se corresponde con realidades ya conocidas y antiguas de América Latina, como es el caso de los populismos. Lo que le ha aportado el actual debate, y se observa en el tratamiento en los estudios de cie…
Hebe Vessuri endowed Chair in Latin American Science, Technology and Society: A Tapuya initiative
Tapuya is a highly innovative yet editorially challenging journal because of its multiple connections with institutions and academics throughout South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, a
The paths towards institutionalization
In 2021, Tapuya publishes its fourth volume. Perhaps because of the pandemic and the changes that have taken place since the beginning of 2020, the day when we launched the journal, at the annual m
Migrants, parasites et exploitation minière: Coproduction de problèmes publics et de connaissances scientifiques dans la périphérie
Les régions périphériques de la science, telles que les pays d'Amérique latine, ont souvent entretenu des relations complexes avec les centres d'expertise scientifique et technique. Dans ces régions, on espère que les connaissances scientifiques contribuent à la résolution de problèmes publics, alors que, dans le même temps, elles doivent satisfaire aux exigences des domaines et institutions de recherche dominants situés dans les centres hégémoni…
STS Between Centers and Peripheries: How Transnational are Leading STS Journals
In the context of increasing internationalization of the science and technology studies (STS) field, and reflections on post-coloniality and provincialization of STS, we examine to what extent a set of twelve leading journals of the field have published papers from different regions worldwide. In this exploratory work, based on information retrieved from the Web of Science for the period 2010–2019, we often use Latin America as an example, but re…
The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers
Going virtual: Academic conferences in the age of Covid-19
In the context of the 2020 world pandemic of COVID-19, many professional and scientific associations have had to change the way that they gather and reorganize their scholarly conferences. For many of them, conferences are a main source of income and important occasions for business meetings and managerial decisions. Yet, with trips and face-to-face encounters banned, the opportunity arrived for going virtual and developing human and technical ca…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works)